(List started Fall 2006)

Great reads - What books do you recommend to your fellow students?

Here are a few titles, mostly suggested by students:

The Mists of Avalon
The Woman Warrior
The Unbearable Lightness of Being  (and anything else written by Milan Kundera)
Eats, Schuttes, Leaves

The Song of Ice and Fire

American Gods
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game;

The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)

The Agony and the Ecstacy (Irving Stone),

King Rat (James Clavell),

Exodus, Mila 18 (Leon Uris)

Gruden, Robert. Book: A Novel

Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Mystery Light

Language of Elk

Mark Doty, My Alexandria

Marguerite Duras, The War

Clarice Lispeitor, The Hour of the Star

Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban

Robert Atwon, The Writer’s Presence

Firmin

House of Leaves

Godel, Escher, Bach

Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wars

Here are a few of my longtime favorites:

Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio and An Instance of the Fingerpost

Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

A.S. Byatt, especially Possession and Babel Tower

Donna Tartt, The Little Friend and The Secret History

Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 100 years of Solitude

Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Leslie M. Silko, Ceremony

Marcel Proust, The Remembrance of Things Past

Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

The Bird Artist

E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany